Index: /trunk/src/VBox/ValidationKit/common/utils.py
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--- /trunk/src/VBox/ValidationKit/common/utils.py	(revision 71157)
+++ /trunk/src/VBox/ValidationKit/common/utils.py	(revision 71158)
@@ -74,4 +74,5 @@
     """
     sStreamEncoding = sys.stdout.encoding;
+    if sStreamEncoding is None: sStreamEncoding = 'US-ASCII'; # files, pipes and such on 2.x
     if sStreamEncoding == 'UTF-8' or not isinstance(sString, unicode):
         print(sString);
@@ -84,4 +85,5 @@
     """
     sStreamEncoding = sys.stderr.encoding;
+    if sStreamEncoding is None: sStreamEncoding = 'US-ASCII'; # files, pipes and such on 2.x
     if sStreamEncoding == 'UTF-8' or not isinstance(sString, unicode):
         print(sString, file = sys.stderr);